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EB-1A awards — AAO decision MAR232022_01B2203: Appeal dismissed. Review source status, procedural posture and the official USCIS PDF.
Decision summary: The AAO Appeal dismissed AAO found one top-level competition award met, but membership, published material, and original contributions were not established. The additional leading/critical-role claim and prospective-benefit issue were reserved.
Source reviewed: This page summarizes the specific AAO source and posture recorded in the completed source-review tracker. It does not turn a nonprecedent decision into a general rule.
Scope classification from review: The source is an AAO EB-1A petition appeal and contains decision-specific procedural and evidentiary analysis.. This is a source-review label, not a legal conclusion.
Decision snapshot
Decision ID | MAR232022_01B2203 |
|---|---|
Decision date as printed | March 23, 2022 |
Classification / field stated in source | EB-1A extraordinary-ability petition appeal |
Procedural posture | EB-1A appeal; dismissed after fewer than three criteria; formal final merits not reached. |
Operative disposition | Appeal dismissed |
Final-merits status | AAO expressly declined formal final merits because the initial threshold failed; aggregate no-acclaim observations followed. |
What the AAO decision addressed
AAO found one top-level competition award met, but membership, published material, and original contributions were not established. The additional leading/critical-role claim and prospective-benefit issue were reserved.
Criterion-by-criterion status in this source
These labels reproduce the source-review record. “Not considered,” “not reached,” and “not coded” do not mean the criterion failed. A Director finding recited as background is not an AAO holding unless the decision says so.
Criterion | Source-review status |
|---|---|
Awards | |
Membership | |
Published material about the person | |
Judging the work of others | Not coded — source PDF |
Original contributions of major significance | |
Scholarly authorship | Not coded — source PDF |
Artistic display or showcases | Not coded — source PDF |
Leading or critical role | Not reached — p. 6 |
High salary or remuneration | Not coded — source PDF |
Commercial success in the performing arts | Not coded — source PDF |
Source-cited findings recorded in review
claim: The public decision redacts the sport name; it describes a male athlete/coach with regional, national, and international competition placements who intended to compete and open a training academy in the United States.; pages: 1; 2
claim: The AAO found a third-place trophy at a 2014 top-level world competition sufficient for the awards criterion; a 2011 fourth-place result did not itself show receipt of an award.; pages: 2; 3
claim: Association bylaws showed athlete membership required an application/registration statement rather than outstanding achievements judged by experts; other alleged association membership was not established.; pages: 3; 4
claim: Competition-result lists and screenshots/videos did not establish qualifying published material about the petitioner; descriptions of video content lacked supporting transcripts.; pages: 4; 5
claim: The petitioner’s club/training work and athletic results did not demonstrate original contributions of major significance or field-wide influence.; pages: 5; 6
claim: AAO reserved the leading/critical-role and prospective-benefit issues, found fewer than three criteria, and dismissed without formal final merits.; pages: 6; 7
How this record may be used in research
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Page-level source trail
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How to use this record
This is a historical, nonprecedent AAO decision about its own administrative record. It is not a prediction, success rate, or current filing instruction. Compare the issue and procedural stage before drawing an analogy. The current framework is in the USCIS Policy Manual, Volume 6, Part F, Chapter 2.
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